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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Hazard Mater. 2015 Apr 1;295:97–103. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.03.069

Table 1.

Explosion parameters of selected carbonaceous nanomaterials.

Material Pmax Pm(500) KSt K(500) MEC MIE MITcloud v = KSt/Pmax
[bar] [bar] [bar-m/s] [bar-m/s] [g/m3] [kJ] [°C] [m/s]
fullerene 8.0 6.5 199 101 17 < 0.25 550 25
SWCNT 7.3 6.8 123 79 64 0.25 – 0.5 570 17
carbon black 7.2 5.9 112 61 53 0.25 – 0.5 > 600 16
MWCNT 6.7 5.9 104 57 48 0.25 – 0.5 > 600 16
graphene 6.6 5.5 70 46 73 0.5 – 1.0 > 600 11
CNF 7.1 5.4 96 15 51 1.0 – 2.5 > 600 14
graphite 6.3 4.6 64 27 92 1.0 – 2.5 > 600 10